Broadcasting & Cable: ROAD TO NATPE, Business Shifts Bring New World Order to Syndication

   

Top Stories - January 27, 2014 Business Shifts Bring New World Order to Syndication One short year ago, as top execs gathered for NATPE, the TV business looked starkly different than it does today. Gannett did not own Belo. Tribune did not own Local TV. Young and Media General were two separate companies. And Sinclair had just begun its multibillion- dollar buying spree. More» NATPE CEO: We Will to Return to Miami in 2015, Not Compete with Realscreen Rod Perth, NATPE president and CEO, opened the 51st NATPE market and conference Monday morning with a promise that the event in 2015 "will not compete with Realscreen," the reality TV gathering in Washington, D.C. that this year and last ran at the same time as NATPE. "Real Screen will have its own dates, we'll have our own dates." More» In Import-Export Business, Producers Put Stock in Trade Signs of strength in the booming format trade in the Americas can be found on both sides of the Rio Grande, with more U.S. networks adapting programming ideas from south of the border than ever before, and Latin American broadcasters acquiring more formats. More» More News NATPE: Banijay Inks Peruvian Deal For 'Stars In Danger' Banijay International has inked a deal in Peru for its entertainment format Stars in Danger: The High Dive. In a statement, Sebastian Burkhardt, head of sales at Banijay International, described Peru as "a very important market for us with a strong appetite for entertainment formats" and said that "we're very pleased to secure this new deal with America TV in Peru, further extending the reach of Stars in Danger: The High Dive in Latin America." More» NATPE: PGS Inks Latin American Program Deals At the opening of NATPE, PGS Entertainment announced sales of a number of animated series and movies to Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and pan regional channels. More» 11th Annual NATPE Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards Honorees include Emilio Azcarraga, James L. Brooks, Jon Feltheimer and Lauren Zalaznick. More» Bellum Offering Two New Weekend Series at NATPE Burbank-based Bellum Entertainment will premiere two new weekend series this fall, What Went Down and State to State, and it has renewed Unsealed: Alien Files for a third season. All three half-hour series are cleared on Tribune's owned stations for weekends. More»

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